Episode 382: How To Have Great Staff Meetings Your Employees Will Be Begging To Attend

Inn this week's episode of  Bella in your Business, I’m sharing transformative business strategies with pet industry expert Liz Illig to catalyze scaling. If you lead a 6-7 figure pet company but dread lackluster staff meetings, this discussion will resonate. Like many founders directing rapid growth, I struggled to make mandatory meetings engaging despite understanding their profit potential. After too many dull sessions met with indifference, I realized I needed a better approach. In this episode, I will share my methodology to channel spectacular staff engagement into unbreakable client loyalty, outstanding care consistency, and perpetual revenue growth into the mid 6 and 7-figures. Because once your team wholeheartedly embraces the collective vision, that ownership drives accountability and quality that retains clients. Join me in unlocking this retention model as Liz unveils her secrets to inspiring true staff excitement. Let’s maximize staff meeting ROI together and elevate our women-led companies with vibrant cultures focused on sustainable processes. By prioritizing employee enthusiasm and constructive collaboration, we can realize improved performance that takes our enterprises to unprecedented heights. I'm confident you'll discover several "aha" ideas to eliminate staff meeting dread and turn obligation into motivation. Your bottom line will capture that compounded enthusiasm. Tune in now to realize seven figures sustainably as an uplifted team propels your women-owned juggernaut. Make sure you don't miss the freebie we have in this episode just for you! This episode was brought to you by JazzHr Topics & Key Points: Staff meetings and team-building activities Planning and conducting effective employee meeting Company culture, employee engagement, and retention Creating a company culture through training and team building Timestamps: [6:46] Planning and conducting employee meetings [10:29] Company culture, employee engagement, and retention [13:45] Creating a company culture Notable Quotes: [4:26] "So to continue on that so it also will help with employee retention, right? Because they feel connected to your whole company. It also provides an opportunity for them to have some positive interactions" [10:32] "when you're bringing people together, it's good to have an agenda" [13:24] "And if they're not having regular meetings, where you guys can all come together, where they can get some face time with you. And it's, it's, it's very easy to be very isolated in this job. It's very easy to just like formulate your own thoughts and opinions. So like, what thoughts and opinions are your employees forming of you other than text message, which can often be misconstrued?" Resources: Podcast: Bella in Your Business: Pet Industry Business Podcast Join Mastermind Email Bella: bella@jumpconsulting.net Sign up for a 20 mins call  Better Marketing with Bell JazzHR Pet Care Team Training Liz: liz@lizillg.com Connect with Bella Website Facebook YouTube Did you love this episode? This episode was sponsored by JazzHr! Make sure you never miss an episode! Head over to Apple Podcasts or Spotify to subscribe to Bella In Your Business. Remember when life gets down, Always Keep Jumping. Transcript: Welcome to another episode of Bella in Your Business. My name is Bella Vasta. And today I'm joined by Liz Illig. Liz, how are you? I'm good, how are you? I'm amazing. And you know, Liz, we had on our last podcast, we had Maris, Michelle, and Leia all here to talk about how they changed their hiring all around how they went from trying to create their own Google Forms and, and gonna sift through emails and ask friends and family and post on on Facebook endlessly and have no results to Systemizing their hiring process and having weightless now. Excuse me. So I thought it was only fair and awesome to have you on this time to kind of let our listeners hear a cool training that you and I did for pet care team training. Admittedly, you and I are the co-founders of pet care team training. Do you want to just briefly explain to our audience what that is in case they it's their first time listening? All right, so pet care team training is a simplified training method for your dog walkers and pet sitters. Basically, Bill and I took our expertise over many, many years, and put it together in a training where you can train people in less than two hours keeping your costs down, we thought of everything. And even once we created it, we were like, how can we enhance this and we kept kind of just like adding layers and tears to it. And I couldn't be more proud of the platform and the training and how we can get people certified fast. Right, so a lot of like Leia, Maris, and Michelle, all have used it too so they get to have certified trainers or certified pet sitters in their area as well, in a combination of using it with JazzHR. So it's pretty cool. Both of those things, you guys can go check out, jump consulting.net/jazzhr, the only place in the industry where you can get 50% off the middle tier and a whole bunch of extra free stuff. It's like the only place you get the hookup that I get for you. And then also Pet Care Team training.com. That's where you can check out the solo or double certification for your staff in under two or four hours. And mad-libs did style to where you can customize it, which is cool. But part of that your team training was and I have made a dedication this month this year to doing four trainings free to the industry because we want so badly to help support you guys, we do not want you to struggle through hiring, there are so many tips and tricks and awesome things that you can do that really can help expand on what you're doing. So today, we wanted to kind of talk about how to have great staff meetings, that your employees will be begging to attend. And we wanted to kind of give you a look-see into this now. Now, Liz, don't you agree that when someone comes on board, one of the first things that we should do and plan for is that 30-day review right then and there on the spot so that they know it's coming? And it's scheduled, but also, every year plan out our meetings and we suggest quarterly meetings why is that? Can you tell people why we suggest quarterly meetings, quarterly meetings, it's not overkill, and it's not asking too much. But it's a good touch point. And especially in this industry, seasons change. So it's a good time to kind of put things together and say hey, we're moving into winter season, here's some different protocols, here's some different procedures, here's some things that we need to be looking out for, it's gonna start getting caught here are the things we need to do. And so it fires me up because it is an amazing touch point that we can have with our staff. It's also you know, you can start creating a list in January for your, your March or April meeting of like things that have come up in the business, and like it just is a good touch point for keeping people engaged retaining people, and giving people knowledge and information because that is one thing a lot of companies do not do is give people knowledge and information so that they can be successful at their job. Absolutely. So to continue on that it also will help with employee retention, right? Because they feel connected to your whole company. It also provides an opportunity for them to have some positive interactions it's not just always you you know Don't you forget or Don't you know you did this wrong or something like that. It provides a moment that you can just really bond with people and you can see the quirks or there you know things maybe someone loves Star Wars you know it. It allows us opportunities to just grow and bond also I think that when you do that, it's really important to have some cool team-building activities. And some things that we like that we always like to, you know, share and things that I did. And I know that Liz has done one thing I learned it was from improv. And we had Chris True on the on the podcast a while ago. And this one was his, it's like, We're going camping, and I'm taking an apple, and it's alphabet game with camping. And so you go around, and so then Liz might go and she goes, I'm going camping, and I'm taking an apple and a banana, you know, and so you just kind of keep going down the line. And it's funny because you have to think on your feet. And you have to, like, you know, just think of something. And sometimes the things that come out are funny. And when we have laughter when we have emotional opportunities, that is bonding, okay, oxytocin happens and, and we bond and that's, that's always a great thing. The other fun things and ways to learn about people are two truths and a lie. And so sometimes, you know, I mean, I always, you know, use the whole, I had a 12-ounce baby and that mix, and people always think like, That is weird. Like, there's no way you could do that. Like, that was the truth. And then what does that do? It sparks conversation. So that's a really interesting and easy thing that you could do with the team, as well as just a cool icebreaker. And then there are so many games that you can come up with online, that you can Google, you can do scavenger hunts even, which are also fun because those are team building. So, um, what? Let's move into tips for like, where should we have these meetings. Because I know a lot of our listeners, you know, they're either just starting out and like their home is their home office. And it's like, do I have them at my home or not? Or, you know, maybe outside the home? So what are some ideas that you might have for different meeting locations? Yeah, and I think this is, this is a good thing to note here because you want to pick a good location. After all, you also, we don't necessarily work in offices, we,